Retropie Metadata Editor

amadeus

@EctoOne
Ahh, OK! Reading the whole entry for a system would be a good idea sometimes... ;-)
I only look in the table on the top.

LiqwdE

@amadeus

Hey brother, been off awhile mess ing with other projects. Trying to get my 3.5 lcd to clock more than 1 fps... giving me a headache.

Gonna upload some more roms into the pi soon, will download the current release and run it through the paces.

Evert

@amadeus , would it be possible for the program to find a retropie system that isn't called "retropie"?
I've got two raspberry's in the house loaded with retropie. One is hooked on the TV and is just called "retropie". The other one is in my arcade cabinet and hence I've renamed it "arcade". The reason for this is that when both systems are on, I still want to be able to find the individual systems on the network to load roms etc.
Would it be difficult to add a box where you can enter the name of the system that you want the editor to look for?

I've changed the device name via:
sudo raspi-config
Option 9: Advanced Config
Option A2: Hostname

Thanks

Evert

Also, could you add FBA support if possible please?

Thanks mate

amadeus

@Evert
You can update Path Roms, Path Gamelist and Path Images on the first tab under Settings.
Just replace "retropie" with "arcade" or whatever the name of the retropie is.

amadeus

@Evert
Please use your arcade folder (in rom directory). this will recognized by REM.

Evert

@amadeus yes, didn't pick that up, works great. It recognizes my arcade machine now by changing that.

I don't really want to use the arcade folder though as I like to have my MAME games and FBA games separate. Any chance FBA can get it's own listing, just like all the other systems you have?

Thanks mate

backstander

I do the same as @Evert and here recently I also started splitting up FBA and NeoGeo games. I originally didn't see the purpose of splitting them up when I first got my RPi but now after splitting them I can find my games easier.

frgn

@amadeus Hi! My games directory is located on the external usb. I tried to enter different options, but the scan fails. Help, pls. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
0_1492119294840_Снимок.PNG

EctoOne

@frgn
If you're using the usb mount option from the setup, the path should be the default one. As far as I know the default path is only a virtual link to the path on the usb stick. I'm not sure tho, I never used one of the different available tools to change my files directly on the Pi. I always made the changes on my PC and copied them afterwards.

frgn

@EctoOne it's not usb mount option. I just changed the roms directories in es_systems.cfg file
SAMPLE:

<system>
<name>nes</name>
<fullname>Nintendo Entertainment System</fullname>
<path>/media/usb0/nes</path>

EctoOne

@frgn Um, then I don't know. I guess you also have to add that path to the samba shares somehow. But I've never done that before. Why aren't you using usb mount tho? Again I'm not sure, but I think there is a risk of losing any manual edits to the config files if you download an update. I'm using usb mount myself and it works fine, although there can be an issue with downloaded video splashscreens (but that can be easily avoided if you move them to the same folder with the pre installed videos on the SD card).
My suggestion would be to move the images and gamelist.xml into your rom folder on your stick. Depending on the amount of games/system you're using that would require some work because you have to replace the image path in the xml. But after that you can just plug in your stick into your Pc to make the changes. Also you have an plug and play backup of your roms, images and xml. So if you ever need to do a fresh install, you only need to activate usb mount again and don't need to scrape/edit your files again.

masteryoer

@Ekstreme

I am working on a community website right now that allows you to upload your gamelist.xml files and it scans and parses it, then retrieves the metadata from your selected scraper and retrieves the metadata, to which you can edit it or save & export for placing back in your Retropie setup.

kbronctjr

man codeplex is shutting down, you better move the project to github ;)

g2000

Thank you for creating this! Very useful and exactly what I was looking for.
As I was using the latest build 1.15 I noticed that some xml lists are not displaying any metadata information or images. This seems to happen to any list after the gbc is scanned. I know that these gamelists are populated and do indeed contain images. Has anyone else come across this?

Edit: It seems that as its scanning the folders the application hangs for a few moments mid way through.
As I looked into the xml files I noticed it started giving me issues with anything scraped using the UXML Scaper. Games that were scraped using the built in scaper are detected.

RetroRay

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

cyperghost

@amadeus Nice software. Good job in saving config in depence of executive name ;)
it's command call 0 & ".config" ;)

g2000

Ok so after looking into this a bit further, it seems that when using the UXML (Universal XML Scraper) it adds some additional code into the gamelist.xml that RME has difficulty reading.

~~Here are some examples:~~
Edit: I figured out :)
gamelist xml entry using UXML (RME does not display image or meta info)

<game id="799" source="ScreenScraper">
		<path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mastersystem/<rom name></path>
</game>

gamelist xml entry using traditional xml scraper (works correctly with RME)

<game>
		<path>./<rom name></path>
</game>

UXML is the culprit. When UXML writes to the path, it uses full rom folder path (see above)
If you edit the gamelist.xml and replace the full rom path and replace it as ./<romfile> it works!

Hope this helps

hoodle

Can I just ask (considering that my images folder is different for 'Arcade' and all other platforms - Arcade is in arcade/images, other platforms in platform/boxart or marquee etc), will I have to update each gamelist separately, altering the image path each time? All will the software only overwrite the XML where changes have been made?

I'm also guessing I'm going to run into issues where the boxart, marquee and video are saved in different folders?

fuzznec

I've made a custom build of this wonderful program.
I'm not an expert of Visual Studio, i've just downloaded it one month ago and began to exercise.

I added Drag and drop for Video and Image (For video drag the file in the video box, for image, in the image box), changed how work the datetime (i just hated the calendar) so it's regular input (since i made it for myself and i input only the year. Removed temporary Image editing software link.
I will possibly add some other feature later.

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1eMzyBruBCWblJOdkNmdFpyQ1U/view?usp=sharing](link url)

If it can help you ... use it :)